Myanmar Coverage

Burma - Another UN Failure

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 01.04.2009 | World


Virginia M. Moncrieff

The UN Secretary General turned down a request by over 100 former world leaders to visit Burma to petition the military regime to release all political prisoners. I have a friend in jail in Burma for 142 years.

CNN Gets Graphic In Myanmar With Footage Of Dead Bodies (GRAPHIC)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.20.2008 | Media


In Monday afternoon's coverage of last week's cyclone in Myanmar, CNN took the rare step of showing dead bodies — both human and animal — ...

In Other News, There Was This Cyclone...

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media


Is it me, or does the news of a massive, catastrophic cyclone in Myanmar with a staggering estimate of 100,000 dead, compounded by official ineptitude...

Myanmar Cuts Internet, Silences Bloggers

CNN | Wayne Drash | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


The Internet connection in Myanmar was cut Friday, limiting the free flow of information the nation's citizens were sharing with the world depicting t...

Citizen Journalism A Sudden Essential In Myanmar

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


The WSJ reports today on the role new media is playing in the uprising in Myanmar: In the age of YouTube, cellphone cameras and text messaging, t...